Google image search mistakes black couple as "gorillas"

Google came under fire this week after its new Photos app categorized photos in one of the most racist ways possible. On June 28th, computer programmer Jacky Alciné found that the feature kept tagging pictures of him and his girlfriend as "gorillas." He tweeted at Google asking what kind of sample images the company had used that would allow such a terrible mistake to happen.

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Google has apologised and admitted its new image recognition technology is flawed after it tagged two black Americans as gorillas.